4runner dwarfs 80's full size sedan

I have to ask whatcha doing with the 88?

I drove that exact car in high school, cept blue.

Was a well used hand me down from my dad.

Long before it was mine and we used to sneak it out and we'd flip over the air filter cover for little intake boost, do a few brake torque burn outs.
 
Dynamo said:
Not sure how far back you mean by "the past" but I would disagree with you based on my experience of being a kid in the '70s. Cars were boats back then.

My parent's family hauler was a '72 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate station wagon that they bought new. With the back seats folded down you could fit a fullsize sheet of plywood in the back and still get the tailgate up. Six adults could ride in it easily, and it still had a third-row rear facing tailgunner seat for at least 2 kids.
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Sorry, I was talking about the '80s and '90s in the US and 40's onward for the rest of the world. Yes, I understand that in the '50s and '60s the "Big 3" were making cars as gigantic as possible, and in the '20s and '30s super high-end cars were gigantic. But over the last 40 years the average automobile has gotten bigger and way heavier. Also, that '72 Chevy wasn't 7 feet tall. Anyone who says that cars today aren't WAY taller than in the past has no idea what they're talking about.
 
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"Anyone who says that cars today aren't WAY taller than in the past has no idea what they're talking about."

I was born in 1950 and today's cars aren't WAY taller than in the past.

Our 2016 Avalon Touring is an inch taller than the 1959 Bel Air.
 
johnbt said:
"Anyone who says that cars today aren't WAY taller than in the past has no idea what they're talking about."

I was born in 1950 and today's cars aren't WAY taller than in the past.

Our 2016 Avalon Touring is an inch taller than the 1959 Bel Air.
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My point exactly! A Bel Air was a tall car in 1959. An Avalon is a short car today. It's an entire foot shorter than a RAV4, for example. Toyota sold 28,000 Avalons last year and 448,000 RAV4s. I mean c'mon, just look at any parking lot.....
 
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Teamoatmealpie said:
I have to ask whatcha doing with the 88?

I drove that exact car in high school, cept blue.

Was a well used hand me down from my dad.

Long before it was mine and we used to sneak it out and we'd flip over the air filter cover for little intake boost, do a few brake torque burn outs.
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I just have a thing for 80's velour and hood ornaments. Rust free low mile that I picked up a few years back. It's a fun local errand cruiser. No air cleaner flipping or one wheel burnouts. That's how I tortured my '89 Dodge Ram though:)
 
MossJenks said:
Sorry, I was talking about the '80s and '90s in the US and 40's onward for the rest of the world. Yes, I understand that in the '50s and '60s the "Big 3" were making cars as gigantic as possible, and in the '20s and '30s super high-end cars were gigantic. But over the last 40 years the average automobile has gotten bigger and way heavier. Also, that '72 Chevy wasn't 7 feet tall. Anyone who says that cars today aren't WAY taller than in the past has no idea what they're talking about.
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I think this is an odd way of looking at it, with the 80s as a baseline. Starting from the Model T genesis American cars got bigger and then stayed big. 40s cars big, 50s big, 60s big, 70s big, oil crisis and pollution leads to 80s small, 90s bigger, and now back to big again. The 80s were an aberration. The Chevy sales leading DeLuxe in 1941 was 196 inches. The first Ford Explorer, a smash hit introduced in 1991, was 184 inches. Our 5th gen is 190 inches--we're just back to the American normal.
 
4runner is same height but shorter than the 68 F100
Same length but taller than the Dodge Magnum.
Shorter horizontal & vertical to the 07 Dodge Ram long bed quad cab 4x4.
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